football player

Questions about football player

What does football player mean?

football player means "an athlete who plays American football".

What is another word for football player?

Close synonyms include footballer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is football player a common word?

football player is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.